Another time, as he was looking about, he saw something in the way ahead of him; it was an object like a line drawn across his course; and then, as he looked, “Perhaps that is which is now coming into view is the island for which I am bound,” he thought.

Thereupon he truly hastened on with his canoe.

Farther on he listened again for the sound, and he heard it the same as before. “Twin, twin,” (2) was the sound he heard.

Straight from the yonder place where the land was coming into view he heard the sound.

It turned out truly to be (the island) that he had seen.

And now, as he continued on, he presently saw the land in plain sight; thereupon again he listened, and then again he heard the sound.

And then the water trembled, so loud was the manitou hewing upon his shin.

Thereupon it is said that Nänabushu now drove his canoe straight for the place in the shore from whence he heard the sound come; truly as he went ashore he saw a path leading away somewhere.

And as he followed it up from the shore, he saw a small wigwam standing; and so secretly went he up to it; as he peeped in, he saw an old man seated in a squatting pose, facing him, and he had hold of something in his hand.

And as he watched him striking upon his shin, it was like hewing upon a log, such was his manner of doing it.

And frightful was the sound that he made when he struck.

And as for Nänabushu, there he stood observing him.

After a while the other then turned about, and said: (4) “Aha, aha, aha, Nänabushu! Have you some to make war upon me?” he was told.

“Yes,” to him said Nänabushu.

“Very well, then!” At the same time he made a pretence at laughing, so deep was his contempt of Nänabushu; he had no doubt but that he would prevail over him.

And as for Nänabushu, too, “Come, make haste!”

And so, in truth, up he slowly rose from his couch, and up he rose to his feet; and then he came out of doors.

“Well, let us pick out a place where we are to fight each other,” (Nänabushu) was told.

“All right,” he said to him.

Thereupon they truly sought for a place. “Here is a place,” they said.

Round about looked Hewer-of-his-Shin.

And up into the air looked Nänabushu; he stood in his place, his shield he barried [carried?], so too his bow and arrows.

And as for Hewer-of-his-shin, he held in his hand a war-club of stone.

Thereupon they now addressed each other, saying: “Ready!”

And truly Nänabushu then shot at him, and then in turn Hewer-of-his-shin struck him with his war-club.

Thereupon exceedingly hard at work they truly kept each other.

Nänabushu nearly all the while was occupied in dodging the blows, truly was he kept stirring by the other.

And so for Nänabushu, he too was active with his shooting.

While they now were in the thick of their fight with each other, then the supply of Nänabushu’s pointed arrows began to run low.

And in the midst (of the fighting) Nänabushu heard the sound of some one calling out to him from above, saying: “Hey, Nänabushu! at the scalp-lock shoot him!” was the sound Nänabushu heard.

Though busily engaged, out he also cried: “What!” said Nänabushu.

“At his scalp-lock shoot him!”

Whereupon he was told by Hewer-of-his-Shin: “What (is the matter), Nänabushu? With whom are you speaking?” he was asked.

Nänabushu then said: “Ah, few do you think are my little brothers of the sky who protect me?” he said to him.

Thereupon truly Nänabushu shot the Hewer-of-his-Shin there where he was told to shoot him, there were his hair was tied in a bunch at the back; whereupon he hit him (with the arrow).

And then he was told: “Alas, O Nänabushu! is it true that now you really intend to kill me?” he was told.

“Ah!” he said to him. “You surely do not think that I am simply trifling with you!” (﻿5﻿) to him said Nänabushu.

Once more he shot him in the crown of the head.

Whereupon again the same thing he was told: “Alas, O Nänabushu! is it true that surely now you mean to slay me?” he said to him.

“Of course!” said Nänabushu. “You who slew my parents,” he said to him, “you too shall I slay!” he said to him.

At the same time that Nänabushu was talking, he was all the while shooting.

And then presently he brought him down with his shooting.

Thereupon he was told again: “Now, O Nänabushu, do leave me alone! In return something will I give you.”

“Hurry and give it to me!” he said to him. “Tell me, too, what you did to my father and mother and to all those who used to live in times past!” he said to him.

Whereupon truly he was told: “Do you see this island where now we have fought each other?

Those trees that you see standing are the same as they who used to live in times gone by.

Such is the form I have made them, that they be as trees,” he was told.

“Now, if you leave me alone, I will give you something to use to make them come back to life again,” he was told.

“Make haste and tell me what I shall do to bring them back to life!”

“Go yonder inside to the place from whence I rose to my feet, and you will see there a small wooden pail; and bring it here to me.”

Thereupon Nänabushu truly went to fetch it; but he did not lay aside his bows and arrows.

And then he was told: “You see what is here contained in this small pail, in this small wooden pail; there is contained here the means by which you are to bring back to life your father and your mother,” he said to him, “and all the others.

Now, this you shall do: you shall scratch the bark from the tree until you see the part in the wood; and then a stick shall you dip into this that is contained here in the little wooden pail; and then shall you rub it upon the place where you have scraped the bark from the tree,” he said to him.

“Oh! Is that all?” he said to him.

“That is all.”

Thereupon again he shot him in the crown of the head, whereupon he slew him.

“There, now!” he said to him. “Dog (6) that you are, who was ever bent upon destroying the earth!

So now I will derive from you the source by which the earth will be replenished,” he said to him.

Thereupon he began slicing him into small pieces with a knife.

And as he scattered the pieces about, in all the various direction he flung them; then he named them what they were to be, they that run about upon the earth as the little animal-folk, and they that fly about in the air, and also the large animal-folk.

And then next after Nänabushu had taken up the little pail, he did what he had been commanded.

As soon as he had done it to one tree, straightaway there stood in the place a man.

And so to another he did it.

Again to many he did (it).

And then by and by he found his father and his mother, and his elder brother Nänā`pādam.

And then Nänabushu was told by his elder brother, for immediately was he here teased by him while the people laughed: “Did you hear me when I spoke to you?”

Whereupon Nänabushu said to him: “Where?” he said to him.

“When the old man was about to prevail over you.”

And so it was by him that Nänabushu was called upon while he and Hewer-of-his-Shin were fighting.

And now Nänabushu was yet very busy bringing the trees back to life; truly it was they that used to live in a former time.